It’s time for Olive Garden in Downtown Milwaukee

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.

• Hey, Olive Garden, it’s me, Milwaukee, again.

In 2010, I visited one of your locations. The one on Brown Deer Road. It was for a bachelor party. What kind of bachelor parties eat at Olive Garden? The kind of bachelor parties I get invited to, I guess.

Anyway, fully [sic] realize that large developments take years to plan and implement, but it’s now time, Olive Garden. Let’s build in Downtown Milwaukee.

As Jeff Sherman from OnMilwaukee recently shared in a piece titled “It’s time for Target in Downtown Milwaukee,” he’d like to see one of Target’s “small-format” stores open in Downtown Milwaukee. How badly does Jeff Sherman from OnMilwaukee want to see one of Target’s “small-format” stores open in Downtown Milwaukee? Dude wrote about it in 2010, too.

Here he was this week:

Hey, Target, it’s me, Milwaukee, again.

In 2010, I wrote this. And, fully [sic] realize that large developments take years to plan and implement.

So, it’s now time, Target. Let’s build in Downtown Milwaukee.

Actually, a Downtown Milwaukee Target would be pretty swell. But this isn’t about Target. This is about Olive Garden. And I think Milwaukee also needs one. Now.

Sure, I can find terrific food literally anywhere in Milwaukee. Throw a stone in Bay View and you’ll hit an incredible local restaurant. Have you eaten at Nessun Dorma in Riverwest lately? Because that place still kills it. Hell, even Downtown has the Milwaukee Public Market. But Olive Garden runs are still needed and simply are not convenient if you live in the North Shore all the way south to the Third Ward. That Olive Garden on Brown Deer Road is the nearest Olive Garden (unless I’m missing one?) and it seems a bit far away if you live in greater Downtown. Plus, those breadsticks.

Food is changing is [sic] so many ways, and one way for Olive Garden to be more local is to build smaller. Milwaukee’s primed to help with our increased Downtown residential and workforce population. They need you, Olive Garden, and your Grilled Chicken Parmigiana.

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